I have a feeling this is going to be incredibly watchable, and a big step up on Matthew Wright, but time will tell...

Alternatively it will carry on in the same rut being a poor woman's Loose Women, topics cribbed from Mumsnet with a host spread so thin he's practically transparent! ITN have run this show into the ground over the last 8 months so I don't really see that just changing the host is going to drag it out of the mess it's in. With Vine's many and varied commitments I'd be surprised if he has the time or the inclination to be much more than the frontman. Happy to be proved wrong as it would be better for viewers to not have the inane drivel of the last few months continue but there are only 24 hours in every day and Vine seems to already be maximising those.

Apparently there will be a ‘pre-recorded’ element of the programme towards the end of each show, to allow him a bit of extra time to get across London for his BBC Radio 2 show. This will be part of the newspaper review apparently, which will be at the end of the programme, so it’ll be interesting to see how that works…

Apparently there will be a ‘pre-recorded’ element of the programme towards the end of each show, to allow him a bit of extra time to get across London for his BBC Radio 2 show. This will be part of the newspaper review apparently, which will be at the end of the programme, so it’ll be interesting to see how that works…

Badly is my guess. Still, as long as we can have the show tailored to meet the needs of the host in pursuit of fattening his pay-packet - What's wrong with that?

Apparently there will be a ‘pre-recorded’ element of the programme towards the end of each show, to allow him a bit of extra time to get across London for his BBC Radio 2 show. This will be part of the newspaper review apparently, which will be at the end of the programme, so it’ll be interesting to see how that works…

Badly is my guess. Still, as long as we can have the show tailored to meet the needs of the host in pursuit of fattening his pay-packet - What's wrong with that?

To be fair to JV - I seem to recall him voluntarily taking a pay-cut from the BBC in the wake of the brouhaha about men at the BBC earning a lot more than women.